To Reign in Hell: The Exile of Khan Noonien Singh
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| NOVEL | |
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| To Reign in Hell: The Exile of Khan Noonien Singh | |
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| Attribution | |
| Series: | The Original Series |
| Miniseries: | The Eugenics Wars |
| Author(s): | Greg Cox |
| Publication information | |
| Published: | Hardcover - 4 January 2005 |
| Reprint(s): | Paperback - 23 May 2006 |
| Pages: | 336 |
| ISBN: | Hardcover: ISBN 0743457110 Paperback: ISBN 0743457129 |
Contents |
[edit] Introduction (blurb)
At last - the untold chapter in the history of Star Trek's most notorious villain, Khan. Searing and powerful, To Reign in Hell masterfully bridges the time period between Khan Noonien Singh's twenty-third-century revival in the Original Series classic episode "Space Seed" and his unforgettable return in the acclaimed feature film Star Trek II:The Wrath of Khan.
What truly transpired during Khan's long years of exile on the forbidding world of Ceti Alpha V, before the tyrant escaped to embark on a murderous campaign of vengeance against Admiral James T. Kirk? What horrific trials spawned Khan's insane lust for revenge?
Haunted by the memory of Khan's bitter accusations, Kirk now revisits Ceti Alpha V to discover for himself what ultimately drove Khan to madness. There, buried beneath the desolate surface of a dying planet, Kirk and his allies find the untold story of their greatest foe -- and of the woman who loved him: Lieutenant Marla McIvers of Starfleet....
Along with Khan's genetically engineered followers from the twentieth century, Khan and Marla are left on Ceti Alpha V with the hopes of building a new life together. Although the planet is savage and untamed, full of deadly predators and unexpected hazards, Khan dreams of carving out an empire even greater than the one he once ruled on Earth.
But when catastrophe strikes, laying waste to the entire world, Khan and the others find themselves trapped in a desperate struggle for survival. Now Khan must use every ounce of his superhuman strength and intellect to wage a fearsome battle against the planet, his people... and the growing darkness in his own soul.
[edit] Summary
To Reign in Hell describes the time period of Khan Nooien Singh and his genetically enhanced followers were exiled to the planet of Ceti Alpha V. Six months after their exile to Ceti Alpha V, Khan and Marla McGivers, along with many of the other colonists, were married. When Ceti Alpha VI exploded, the planet was devastated, and the colony on Ceti Alpha V barely survived the upheaval. McGivers was later killed by Harulf Ericsson, a jealous fellow superman, who placed a Ceti Eel in her ear and directed her to kill Khan. She went back to the quarters that she and Khan shared and she pulled out a knife, about to kill Khan, but resisted at the last moment and stabbed herself in the chest, giving herself a mortal wound. When Khan asked why she did what she did, she barely managed to utter that Ericsson had planted an eel in her ear and that she had no regrets going with Khan. She then died and although Khan would ultimately gain revenge against Ericsson, her death was still one of the reasons that Khan sought vengeance on James T. Kirk for not checking on their progress.
After Khan's death, Captain Kirk, Captain Spock, Doctor McCoy, and Commander Hikaru Sulu returned to Ceti Alpha V in attempt to learn more about Khan's exile. In their search, they accidentally stumbled upon a sarcophagus for Marla that was built by Khan with Marla's mummified remains within. In another sarcophagus, likely meant for Khan, Spock found data tapes and records and Khan's personal journal. Before they left, the landing party were accosted by Ericsson's daughter and a few other surviving supermen and women who were exiled from the colony and demanded to know Khan's whereabouts, not knowing that he had left the planet and subsequently died. The young Ericsson also destroyed Marla's remains with a phaser she took from the landing party. Kirk managed to convince the young Ericsson that Khan was indeed dead and their fight was over. Then Kirk instructed Sulu to go back to the Mutara Sector, and he then beamed her ashes into the debris field created when the Genesis Planet exploded, so that that she and Khan could at least be together. Kirk also hoped that as husband and wife were reunited that somewhere, somehow, Marla McGivers and Khan Singh have both finally found peace
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[edit] Characters
- Yolanda Aponte • Paul Austin • Shirin Azar • Dmitri Blasko • Karyn Bradley • Cesare • Kamala Devi • Marcel Dumas • Astrid Ericsson • Harulf Ericsson • Nadia Gorinksy • Gideon Hawkins • Amy Katzel • Daniel Katzel • James T. Kirk • Suzette Ling • Eric Lutjen • Liam MacPherson • Leonard McCoy • Marla McGivers • Vijay Nikore • Sarah Panjabi • Vishwa Patil • Ali Rahman • Parvati Rao • Rivera • Armando Rodriguez • Juliette Savine • Khan Noonien Singh • Spock • Hans Steiber • Hikaru Sulu • Keith Talbot • Tamsin • Thomsen • Debra VonLinder • Zuleika Walker • Joachim Weiss • Joaquin Weiss
- Referenced only
- Adam • Ahab • Alexander the Great • Ament • Aphrodite • Neil Armstrong • Ashoka • James Matthew Barrie • Napoleon Bonaparte • Pavel Chekov • William Clark • Zefram Cochrane • Christopher Columbus • Eve • Fate • God • Hercules • Sherlock Holmes • Homer • Andrew Jackson • Kahless the Unforgettable • Sarina Kaur • Kodos • Roger Korby • John Kyle • Meriwether Lewis • Mary Mallon • Carol Marcus • David Marcus • Herman Melville • John Milton • James Moriarty • Moses • Annie Oakley • Orpheus • Pandora • Peter Preston • Richard the Lionheart • Satan • Montgomery Scott • Gary Seven • William Shakespeare • Prabhot Singh • Sharan Singh • Mary Ann Summers • Clark Terrell • Nyota Uhura
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[edit] Locations
- Hell • Regula I • Mutara sector • Mutara Nebula • Paradise
[edit] Planets, moons and planetoids
- Ceti Alpha V • Ceti Alpha VI • Genesis Planet • Vulcan • Earth • Janus VI • Exo III • Borgo III • Luna • Amusement Park Planet • Tarsus IV • Risa • Miri's homeworld • Cestus III • Tarsus II • Sycorax
[edit] Planetary
- Yosemite National Park • Vulcan's Forge • San Francisco • Shangri-La • Taj Mahal • India • Area 51 • Indus River • New Chandigarh • River Kaur • Australia • Great Thar Desert • Rajasthan • Calcutta • Pompeii • Krakatoa • Bhopal • Fatalis • Kaur River Valley • Pacific Ocean • Sahara Desert • Azar Gorge • Kalahari • Paragon Colony
[edit] Species
[edit] Human cultures
- Russian • Sikh • Israeli • Viking • Norwegian • Norseman • Scotsman • Amazon • Indian • Hindu • Canadian • German • Bedouin • French • Caucasian • Persian
[edit] States and Organizations
- Starfleet • Khanate of Ceti Alpha V • Chrysalis Project • Starfleet Academy • United Nations • Nazi • United Federation of Planets
[edit] Other
- jacket • uniform • genesis Project • whale • Murphy's Law • tricorder • phaser • chess • craylon gas • Robinson Crusoe • Ceti eel • King Lear • Moby Dick • Paradise Lost • katra • kelbonite • type II phaser • environmental suit • duritanium • thermocrete • knight • The Personal Journal of Khan Noonien Singh • Genesis Device • Morning Star • skirt • boot • palm tree • manacle • silver • gun • photon torpedo • Eugenics Wars • jetpack • data disk • vampire ant • tomato • egg • dagger • kirpan • Banerian hawk • knife • rifle • M-16 • lion • tiger • salmon • condor • machete • bison • Pleistocene Epoch • sabertooth • ox • megacondor • smilodon • travois • tent • axe • spear • bow • arrow • pistol • Donner party • transparent aluminum • wood louse • scorpion • Plutonian sand spider • Captain Proton • sonic shower • barbed wire • blouse • witch • cauldron • Gilligan's Island • Colt's Manufacturing Company • tattoo • cigarette • tobacco • snake • spider • tritanium • axebreaker • wolf • lamb • bat • binocular • Macbeth • crocodile • turtle • papyrus • sycamore • acacia • sitar • shenai • Nehru jacket • wheat • oat • barley • corn • rice • soybean • sari • opossum • veil • negligee • Cricket • Bollywood • Schwarzchild radius • crossbow • Peter Pan • beetle • millipede • spider • salamander • caviar • hypospray • surgical laser • glove • World War II • kaffiyeh • dinosaur • jerky • The Midwich Cuckoos • wine • chai • camel • horse • jackal • coal • cacti • Hamlet • android • marble • chakram • sai
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[edit] Related Stories
- TOS episode: "Space Seed"
- TOS episode: "Assignment: Earth"
- TOS episode: "Shore Leave"
- TOS episode: "Tomorrow is Yesterday"
- TOS episode: "The Galileo Seven"
- TOS episode: "The Conscience of the King"
- TOS movie: Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
- TOS novel: Assignment: Eternity
- TOS novel: The Rise and Fall of Khan Noonien Singh, Volume 1
- TOS novel: The Rise and Fall of Khan Noonien Singh, Volume 2
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